Scary Stories, no ghosts included

Scary Story 1:  You are always watched. A week or two ago I was talking to my documentary photography class, and I mentioned how many cameras now have gps tracking options, and how I religiously turn them off, as I do on my phone, because they can be used to track you.  "Who's doing that?"...

Daniel Morel vs. AFP/Getty Images

I have been telling my classes about how it's important to add your copyright info and name in the metadata of your photos.  I've also mentioned how plenty of companies and even newspapers will use your images without payment or even credit.  It's a nasty world. Check out this article talking about a major incident...

I’m Baaaaaack! (well, occasionally.)

So there was two weeks steady of grading and writing comments til 3 am.  Then there was graduation, then a technology conference I was a speaker for, and then I did all the things I'd neglected: weed the garden, clean the house, brush the furious cat, call my family... And then I died.  For about...

See? I’m not paranoid, I’m *right*

Check out this post.  Scares the dickens out of me, but when I was telling y'all to vote about the facebook policies,  people kept coming up to me, basically claiming I was just a suspicious person.  But the proof is in the pudding, kids... Want to turn your friend’s Facebook photograph into a mug to...

This is Scary…

I've got a lot of stuff that I don't post that scare the daylights out of me.  I made a post last semester about facebook's new policy changes, and how they have nasty side effects.  Sadly, not enough people actually voted in order to retain their own rights, so now we have messes like this...

Facebook Warning!

My husband got a lovely email in his facebook inbox and told me about it.  I haven't gotten one, and I'm kinda pissed, because whether you vote on it and are aware of it would alter what happens to your info, photos, and personal data on facebook. So I had my husband forward me the...